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147.78, "end": 151.98, "text": "Turn it into a bit because if pain is going to live in my house, it can at least help with"}, {"start": 151.98, "end": 152.98, "text": "rent."}, {"start": 152.98, "end": 153.38, "text": "You're welcome."}], "fiction_notice": "ALL FICTION — JOKES ONLY. Everything that follows is a work of fiction created for comedy. Every character, company, advertisement and film title is invented. 'Jesse', 'Koda' and the Red Line roster are fictional characters performed by AI-generated synthetic voices, not recordings of any real person. All characters are fictional consenting adults over 18. No real person is depicted. Any resemblance to real people, businesses or events is coincidental or used as parody.", "rights": "Original work. Not licensed for reuse, redistribution, resale, or model training.", "fiction_notice_end": "THAT WAS ALL JOKES. None of it was real. Every person, company, movie, advertisement and event in this show is made up. These are characters, not real people — performed by AI voices for comedy. Nothing said here is a statement of fact about anybody. Fiction only. Jokes and giggles.", "text": "[ALL FICTION — JOKES ONLY. Everything that follows is a work of fiction created for comedy. Every character, company, advertisement and film title is invented. 'Jesse', 'Koda' and the Red Line roster are fictional characters performed by AI-generated synthetic voices, not recordings of any real person. All characters are fictional consenting adults over 18. No real person is depicted. Any resemblance to real people, businesses or events is coincidental or used as parody.]\n\nMy memoir needs a smoke detector writing a memoir is strange because you think you are going to sit down and tell your story. Then your story sits across from you and says, finally, I have been waiting to complain. Colors of my pain is not a cute title. That is a maintenance log with feelings. You start looking back at your life and realize every chapter had a different personality type trying to survive. Red was trying to protect everybody even when nobody asked. One was trying to understand why the building was on fire. Yellow was trying to love people through smoke. Blue was changing shape so fast it forgot what it originally looked like. And then there is me at 50 trying to turn all of that into a book, comedy, audio, websites, lessons, and maybe a business model before my knees file a complaint. That is the part nobody tells you. Healing is not peaceful at first. Healing is inventory. You open one old memory and suddenly the whole storage unit falls out. There is anger in a box marked childhood. Guilt in a box marked decisions. Regret in a box marked I should have known better. And then some random funny thing falls out too because life is rude like that. You are processing pain and your brain goes. Remember that shirt you thought looked good. Now you have trauma and fashion evidence. That is why I need comedy. Comedy is the only tool I trust that can walk into a painful room and still notice the wallpaper. People think jokes mean you are not taking pain seriously. No, a good joke means I looked at the pain long enough to find the handle. That is what colors of my pain is for me. It is not me saying look how bad it was. It is me saying look what it taught me after it stopped punching. And the four colors help because they give language to the mess. Red says, what did this teach me about protection? Green says what pattern was happening. Yellow says who needed love and did not know how to ask. Blue says who did I become to get through that room? That is powerful. But it is also funny because my red personality wants to turn memoir healing into a job site. My past says can we talk? I say do you have an appointment? My inner child says I need attention. I say grab a ticket. I am building three websites and cleaning a bathroom. That is not healing. That is emotional DMV. So now I am learning to slow down enough to hear the lesson without letting the past take over the whole office. That is the real trick. Do not deny the pain. Do not let it become the manager either. Turn it into a chapter. Turn it into a lesson. Turn it into a bit because if pain is going to live in my house, it can at least help with rent. You're welcome.\n\n[THAT WAS ALL JOKES. None of it was real. Every person, company, movie, advertisement and event in this show is made up. These are characters, not real people — performed by AI voices for comedy. Nothing said here is a statement of fact about anybody. Fiction only. Jokes and giggles.]", "fiction_notice_audio": true}